Bela Miklos

Bela Miklos (11 June 1890-21 November 1948) was the Prime Minister of Hungary from 22 December 1944 to 15 November 1945, succeeding Ferenc Szalasi and preceding Zoltan Tildy.

Biography
Bela Miklos was born on 11 June 1890 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, and he served in the Hussars during World War I before graduating from the General Staff College in 1921 and rising in the ranks of the Hungarian Army. From 1933 to 1936 he was a military attache in Berlin and Stockholm, and on 1 August 1944 he was given command of the Hungarian 1st Army during World War II. He supported the idea of Hungary's defection to the Allied Powers, but he was the only officer who could succeed; he fled to the Soviet Union, and his attempts to form a Hungarian counter-government failed. On 22 December 1944 he became Prime Minister of Hungary under Bela Zsedenyi, and Miklos was Prime Minister until November 1945. He could not prevent hundreds of thousands of Hungarians being deported to Russia as forced laborers, and he died in 1948, receiving no military honors at his funeral.